If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
TOM LANDRYEvery coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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Achievement builds character.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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A winner never stops trying.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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